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In this installment, William Fuller reads the prose fragment “Dewdrops” by John Clare. Fuller 's most recent books are Sadly (Flood Editions, 2003) and Avoid Activity (Rubba Ducky, 2003); Watchword is forthcoming in 2006 from Flood Editions. He lives in Winnetka, Illinois. John Clare, "Dewdrops" The dewdrops on every blade of grass are so much like silver drops that I am obliged to stoop down as I walk to see if they are pearls, and those sprinkled on the ivy-woven beds of...
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In this installment, Anne Marie Macari reads “I Am!” by John Clare. Macari 's first book, Ivory Cradle , won the APR first book prize in 2000. Her second book, Gloryland , was published by Alice James Books in 2005. Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines and, in 2005, she won the James Dickey Award for poetry from Five Points magazine. John Clare, "I Am!" I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare . This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (7MB)
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Book from Project Gutenberg: Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 1
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A LibriVox recording of Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 1. Selected and read by David Barnes . John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his ‘Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery’ was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect words in a mixture of classical forms and heart-felt love of country life and nature. The poems in this...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states...
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In this installment, Sebastian Matthews reads “I Am” by John Clare. Matthews , a graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program, teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell , a place-based literary journal. He is the author of the memoir, In My Father's Footsteps , and co-editor, with Stanley Plumly of Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews . His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly , New England Review , Post Road , Seneca Review, and Tin House among...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Schoolboys in Winter by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 4th, 2015. Read in English by A.J. Tippin; Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Esther ben Simonides; Lee Ann Howlett & Maria Kasper This poem depicts the outdoor activities of a group of boys on their way to school. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Summer Evening by John Clare. This was the weekly poetry project for July 26th, 2009. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (7MB)
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A poem by John Clare, read by Zachariah Wells
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In this installment, Gillian Kiley reads “I Am!” by John Clare. Kiley lives and teaches in Rhode Island. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review , Colorado Review , Swerve , and other journals. John Clare, "I Am!" I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed Into the...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Flood by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2016. Read in English by Amy Gramour; Bruce Kachuk; Benjamin Lewis; Brian Darby; David Lawrence; Esther ben Simonides; Newgatenovelist; Ian King; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper; Matthew Datcher and SkyAlbatross. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his...
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A LibriVox recording of Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2. Selected and read by David Barnes . John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his ‘Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery’ was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect words in a mixture of classical forms and heart-felt love of country life and nature. This volume comprises...
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LibriVox recording of Poems by John Clare. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Lynda Marie Neilson; Larry Wilson; Chris Pyle; Kathleen Moore; Tony Addison John Clare was a working-class English poet, best known for his poetic descriptions of the English Countryside. He is also one of the few popular poets of the 19th century, who, after being largely forgotten for years after their deaths, is being rediscovered in our time. This is a selection of John Clare's poems, suitable as an introduction...
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In this installment, Steve McCaffrey reads “Signs of Winter” by John Clare. Experimental Canadian poet Steve McCaffrey is the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry and has twice received the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry. He was one of the co-founders of the Toronto Research Group and is also the author or editor of several important books of criticism, including Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine , North of Intention , and Prior to Meaning . John...
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In this installment, Michael Collier reads “Emmonsail’s Health in Winter” by John Clare. Collier is a professor of English at the University of Maryland and director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College. John Clare, "Emmonsail's Heath in Winter" I love to see the old heath's withered brake Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling, While the old heron from the lonely lake Starts slow and flaps his melancholy wing, And oddling crow in idle motions swing...
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In this installment, Alexander Long reads “To John Clare” by John Clare. Long's first two books are Vigil (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2006) and Light Here, Light There (C & R Press, 2009). With Christopher Buckley, he is co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: The Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI , The American Poetry Review , American Writers , Blackbird , Callaloo , and The Southern Review ,...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Old Year by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 29, 2013. Read in English by Ann Simmons; Claudia Salto; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garth Burton; Jason Mills; Joe Weinmunson; Julia Niedermaier; Lee Ann Howlett; Michael Keen; ravenotation; Stephen Perry; and Scott Birney. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside...
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In this installment, Thorpe Moeckel reads “Winter Fields” by John Clare. Moeckel’s first book of poems, Odd Botany , was published in 2002 by Silverfish Review Press, and his chapbooks include Meltlines , The Guessing Land , and Making a Map of the River . New poems and essays are forthcoming in Verse , Virginia Quarterly Review , Rivendell , and North Carolina Literary Review . He earned an MFA in 2002 at University of Virginia, where he was a Jacob K. Javits and Henry Hoyns Fellow. A...
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In this installment, Michael Haslam reads four stanzas from “Child Harold” by John Clare. Haslman (b. Bolton, Lancashire, U.K., 1947) has lived at Foster Clough, on the Pennine moor-edge above Hebden Bridge, in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, since 1970, writing, loving and labouring in the immediate vicinity. Publications include Continual Song (Open Township 1986), A Whole Bauble: Collected Poems 1977-94 (Carcanet 1995), The Music Laid her Songs in Language (Arc 2001), and A...
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In this installment, Michael Collier reads “The Mouse’s Nest” by John Clare. Collier is a professor of English at the University of Maryland and director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College. John Clare, "The Mouse's Nest" I found a ball of grass among the hay And proged it as I passed and went away And when I looked I fancied something stirred And turned again and hoped to catch the bird When out an old mouse bolted in the wheat With all her young ones...
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In this installment, Randall Couch reads “The Yellowhammer” by John Clare. Couch received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2000 and an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2003. He teaches at Arcadia University and serves on the planning committee of Penn's Kelly Writers House. He is a contributor to the critical anthology Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler , edited by Marjorie Agosín (Ohio University Press, 2003). John Clare, “The Yellowhammer” When...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Insects by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2016. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Jason Amrhein; Jude; Lee Ann Howlett; Lisa Reichert; Maria Kasper; Matthew Datcher; NoelBadrian and wisegirlstudio. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Summer Morning by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 16th, 2009. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (6MB)
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In this installment, Barry Silesky reads “Song” [“I peeled bits of straws”] by John Clare. Silesky’s third book of poems, This Disease , will be out from Tampa University Press, Fall 2006. He is author of biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Gardner, as well as editor of the literary journal ACM ( Another Chicago Magazine ). He teaches poetry at Loyola University-Chicago. John Clare, "Song" ["I peeled bits of straws"] I peeled bits of straws and I got...
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In this installment, Steve Orlen reads “The Instinct of Hope” by John Clare. Orlen is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Permission to Speak (1978), A Place at the Table (1981), The Bridge of Sighs (1992), Kisses (1997), and This Particular Eternity (2001). His work had been honored with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He teaches at the University of Arizona and in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College....
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In this installment, Joshua Kryah reads “Where She Told Her Love” by John Clare. Kryah was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in poetry. His first collection of poems, Glean (2007), won the 2005 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize judged by Donald Revell. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly , FIELD , The Iowa Review , Pleiades , and Shenandoah , among...
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In this installment, Roger Fanning reads “Trespass” by John Clare. Fanning 's first book of poems, The Island Itself , was a National Poetry Series selection. His second book, Homesick , was published in 2002, and he is currently at work on a third collection, tentatively titled Buoyancy Disorders . John Clare, "Trespass" I dreaded walking where there was no path And pressed with cautious tread the meadow swath And always turned to look with wary eye And always feared the owner...
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